CALL FOR ENTRIES Students' Platform of the Freiburger Filmforum

The 22nd edition of the Freiburger Filmforum Festival of Transcultural Cinema will take place from May 4 to 9, 2027. [1]

From now until September 30, 2026, we warmly invite you to submit your work to the Students Platform's CALL or to this year's special focus, LINES OF PLAY. [2]

ABOUT THE STUDENTS' PLATFORM

Since 1985, the festival has been dedicated to screening films that sensitively portray current, historical, socio-political, and cultural phenomena. Established in 2015, the Students Platform emerged as a parallel program that engages with the lived realities and experiences of young and emerging filmmakers that are developing experimental, and socio-politically engaged cinema practices.

For the CALL FOR ENTRIES, we are looking for films that dare to experiment with new ways of storytelling and are committed to portraying the complexity of our world and its diverse realities. We welcome collaborative and participative methods and experimental approaches that seek to portray social realities. There are no restrictions in terms of length or form. What matters is the film's attempt to listen and observe closely, the filmmaker's sensitive engagement with its protagonists as well as a synergy between content and form. LINES OF PLAY aims at providing a space for filmmaking practices explored through a playful yet critical lens. In a world increasingly shaped by spectacle, algorithmic performance, and manufactured certainties, this years special focus turns toward play as a critical and creative force. Refusing the binary between seriousness and frivolity, the program calls for films that engage with humour, irony, experimentation, improvisation, and subversive imagination as ways of responding to contemporary realities. Rather than treating play as an escape from politics, these works approach it as a method of inquiry, relation, and intervention. Through absurdity, mischief, speculation, and collective invention, they explore how cinema can challenge dominant narratives, open unexpected connections, and imagine other ways of being together.

To submit your film, please visit FilmFreeway [2]. The submission is open until September 30, 2026. Visit our website [1] for more information. We are looking forward to seeing your work!

Please share our call for entries across your network of filmmakers, students, anthropologists, and film enthusiasts alike. For updates follow us on Instagram [3] and Facebook [4].

Best regards, The Team of the Students Platform

Mara Casa Castillo, Sasha Ihnatovich, Sujay Iyer, Ulan Garba Matta, Marlene Mamann, Savyasachi Anju Prabir, Nika Senica, Anna Wessely

[1] https://www.freiburger-filmforum.de/en/home/ [2] https://filmfreeway.com/FreiburgerFilmforum [3] https://www.instagram.com/freiburgerfilmforum/ [4] https://www.facebook.com/freiburgerfilmforum

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